16 Die At Boarding School

World News to Note

December 18, 2000

MEDEA, Algeria -- Armed gunmen shot to death 15 students and a security guard in an overnight weekend massacre at an Algerian boarding school, witnesses said Sunday. The attackers burst into the Lycee Technique of Medea, 50 miles south of the capital Algiers, on Saturday night, first killing the school guard and then opening machine-gun fire inside of the boys dormitories. Six other students suffered wounds from the attack and were evacuated for medical treatment.